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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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Capital Account Policies, IMF Programs and Growth in Developing Regions
Bicaba, Zorobabel; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125876
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Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth
Giuliano, Paola; Ruiz-Arranz, Marta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in …-constructed dataset for remittances covering about 100 developing countries, we find that remittances boost growth in countries with less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566488
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Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective
Tosun, Mehmet S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
voters. The developing region experiences significant growth in all specifications but benefit more under international … capital mobility. Restricting political participation of migrant workers in the developed region produces inferior growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999925
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Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This essay starts, after a short introduction on the importance and dimensions of “inclusive growth”, with a brief …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884390
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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885187
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Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India
Prakash, Nishith; Rockmore, Marc; Uppal, Yogesh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
lower GDP growth per year on average. These estimated costs increase for candidates with serious accusations, multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959551
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Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959700
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959810
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Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max; Tutt, Jascha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273191